Hi lists,
I found this in my note but do not remember where I got it from.
This is all the info I have on these people.
Happy hunting, Helen (DCGS)
MARRIED
CLOUD-POLK.-Jan. 20, 1884, by Rev. W. J. Paxson, in Chester, Pa.,
Mr. Harry R. Cloud of Chester Pa., and Miss Annie M. Polk of Rising Sun, Md.
DIED
McNITT.-At Trainor's Station, Pa., on Friday, February 29th, 1884,
Mrs. Rebecca McNitt, consort of the late Charles McNitt.
McNITT.-At Trainor's Station, Pa., on Tuesday, March 4th, 1884,
Susie, d
I found this info on the web on English Gypsy names which someone else had copied from a now defunct website. It seems that we had both "Black Dutch" or German Gyspies, and English Gypsies in our area. Both the common names and the occupations can be used as clues in genealogical research. One site says that for official use the Roma used the names that were common in the area they were living at the time, but they also had more traditional names that they would use privately.
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Was Your Ancestor a Gy
I think we are up and running, there maybe some cosmetic changes yet but looks like the site is ready.
http://www.marylandgravestones.org
To try and give you a little history on this site and other that are coming online, IA brought this program online first. I then brought it to AZ and CO and now there are sites coming online all over the country. I also host NE and NM.
So, since I am your past Cecil Co. web page administrator and have had the mail list, which seems like forever.. ;-)) I wanted Cecil
Many of the common surnames cited are also in Native American usage. I know there is a Lamb family in early Delaware with a Zephorah, but I've never made a connection.
This is to apologize for a e-mail sent last Wednesday to this and other lists
sent by my niece but written by me and I never intended it to be sent. Once
written, my anger was released and I thought better.
However, my niece can go from Lady to the word use for female dog in 4.2
seconds. I did not realize she had sent the message until the next morning.
That being say, some good things came form the e-mail.
1. After a discussion with AOL, I now get it for $7.00 less.
2. Many e mails were sent in agr
Hi Fred,
My Mom has told me about Gypsies living in Elkton as recent as the 1960s.
Melissa
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Subject: [MDCECIL] Gypsies in Cecil County
> I found this extremely interesting article at the library yesterday, and
I'm wondering if anyone else has information about a group of Gypsies in
Cecil County, particularly around Warwick.
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> Fred Kelso
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> Cecil Whig, Elkton, Cecil Co., MD
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I have read that Old Bohemia was founded by Augustine
Hermen who was from Bohemia. Was there a Bohemian
community in Cecil County at one time?
Thanks for your help.
Joanne
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I found this extremely interesting article at the library yesterday, and I'm wondering if anyone else has information about a group of Gypsies in Cecil County, particularly around Warwick.
Fred Kelso
Cecil Whig, Elkton, Cecil Co., MD
Saturday, July 5, 1902
Front Page
GYPSY PRINCESS DEAD: Mary Wells, Daughter of "Father" Robert Wells, Passed Away in Camp - Queer Burial Rites of the Nomads
"Mary Wells, a gypsy princess, daughter of "Father" Robert Wells, the gypsy patriach who died near Warwick, t
I found the obituary for Robert WELLS, the father of "Gypsy Princess" Mary WELLS, whose 1902 obituary I posted a few days ago:
Cecil Whig
Elkton, MD
Sat., March 2, 1901
Front Page
Gypsy Chief Dead.
"Robert Weld [should be Wells], the chief of several bands of gypsies, which for years have traveled this peninsula, died near Warwick [Cecil County, MD], last Saturday, aged 95 years. The body was taken to Wilmington on Monday, and placed in a vault in the [Wilmington and] Brandywine Cemetery, to await fo
I found two more articles of interest today. The first indicates that the "Gypsy Princess" Mary Wells did not die in Cecil County, but rather in New Jersey, and that her father, Robert Wells, who had died in Warwick, Cecil County, died the previous year. The second article gives the names of members of two different "bands".
Fred Kelso
The Morning News
Wilmington, Delaware
Tues., July 1, 1902
Front Page
Funeral of a Gypsy Princess: She Died at Morristown, N.J., and is to be Laid by the Side of he